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Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has congratulated the nation on the successful launch of the Nour 3 imaging satellite into the space, describing the achievement as another sign of the failure of the sanctions and threats by the enemies of the Islamic Republic.

Iran has successfully launched an imaging satellite into space as the country moves ahead with plans to expand the use of satellites for research and management activities.

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force successfully launched the homegrown imaging satellite Nour-3 into orbit on Wednesday morning.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force has successfully put the Noor-III military satellite into orbit 450 kilometers (279.6 miles) above the Earth's surface with the Qased carrier rocket, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Issa Zarepour stated on Wednesday.

Vladimir Putin sent greetings to the participants in the international drill of quick response teams handling sanitary and epidemiological emergencies with the use of mobile labs, which is taking place in Russia for the second time.

Seoul should be ready to deal with threats beyond North Korea as Beijing's belligerence toward Taiwan and Pyongyang's threats to South Korea keep growing, analysts said.

Top UN officials pledged support for Pakistan on Wednesday as it continues the painstaking process of rebuilding in the wake of last year's devastating floods.

On a hot and humid Friday this month in Shahdara Town, a congested neighborhood in Pakistan's second most populous city, Lahore, mosques began blaring calls for Muslims to demolish an Ahmadi place of worship.

Resistance fighters in Myanmar are increasingly relying on drones to attack Myanmar military forces now that they have cracked the junta's anti-drone jammers, rebel groups and drone operation groups said.

Myanmar's military regime has arrested and jailed nearly 2,000 members of the deposed National League for Democracy, or NLD, since seizing power in a coup d'etat, the party said Wednesday in a statement to mark the 35th anniversary of its founding.

When Chinese conservation teams began working on the That Bin Nyu Temple in Myanmar's ancient city Bagan, local residents noticed something out of place. Less than 300 meters (yards) away, they also began constructing an office.

Myanmar's junta-controlled Ministry of Transport and Communications is threatening mobile phone service sellers and users with six months in prison if they don't register, or fraudulently register, SIM cards, state controlled newspapers said Wednesday.

In their apparent effort to strengthen cooperation in the energy sector, the Russia-Myanmar Association for Friendship and Cooperation (RMAFC) led by its president Anatoly Bulochnikov, exchanged views on opportunities and issues with Myanmar's Union Minister for Electric Power and Union Minister for Energy yesterday.

Two weeks since devastating floods in northeastern Libya claimed several thousand lives and ravaged entire neighbourhoods, the United Nations and its partners remain on the ground and continue to provide critical humanitarian assistance and support to affected people in Derna, Benghazi, Al Bayda, Shahat and Soussa.

The United States will be admitting Israel into its Visa Waiver Program, or VWP, which will allow the entry of Israeli citizens into the country without a visa for up to 90 days, beginning November 30.

Today, the United States is designating a network linked to the U.S.-designated Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The US has placed sanctions on entities and individuals based in Iran and three other countries for what it called aiding Iran's drone program, repeating its unsubstantiated claim of Tehran's support for Russia's war effort in Ukraine.

Beijing has censured a recent move by the US administration to impose a new round of sanctions against a number of Chinese individuals and entities over accusations of providing Iran with drone production materials.

The United States and Iran are denying reports that the two sides are engaged in secret negotiations following a prisoner exchange deal earlier this month that included the unlocking of billions of dollars of frozen Iranian funds.

A bipartisan group of US senators have asked the United Kingdom, France and Germany to take action to prevent the expiration of UN bans targeting Iran's missile and drone activities, which are set to end next month.